Challenging a paradigm: Staggered versus single-pulse mass dog vaccination strategy for rabies elimination
Fig 2
Two theoretical 3-patch metapopulation structures with their corresponding contact matrices, c.
In the fully connected system (A), all of the patches interact with each other equally. In the semi-connected system (B), patch 2 interacts with both patches 1 and 3, but 1 and 3 do not interact with each other.